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A case-control study among Asian-American women [ 4] detected a 30% decreased risk of pre- and post-menopausal women breast cancer for women who reported eating tofu more than once a week as compared with women who ate tofu less than once a month.
The general consensus has been that increased height might be associated with increased risk for breast cancer, and that obesity might increase risk in women aged 50 years or over or who are post-menopausal but might decrease risk in women under the age of 50 years [ 27 28 29 30 ] . Highest adult body mass index was strongly inversely related to breast cancer status both in women under the age of 50 years and, unexpectedly, in those aged 50 years and older.
[ 30 ] , who demonstrated a significant, dose-dependent, reduced risk in a cohort of 28,283 post-menopausal women.
Odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals were calculated using unconditional logistic regression to evaluate associations between CYP17 genotypes and breast cancer risk separately for premenopausal and post-menopausal women.
Although it was hypothesized that the polymorphism (A2 allele) could result in an additional Sp1 binding site with enhanced promoter activity and an increased rate of transcription [ 1 ] , this was not found in experimental studies [ 20 21 ] . Nonetheless, two studies found that both premenopausal and post-menopausal women with the variant A2 allele had higher levels of circulating estrogens than those with common alleles, indicating that the polymorphism may be in linkage disequilibrium with another functional polymorphism or that it may affect hormone levels through some other mechanism [ 4 22 ] .
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